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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
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Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#222I lived life and was able to escape my addictions of being on here talking about mostly useless stuff all day and worrying about the future. It was nice and I wish there were more outages.
And I thought most discussions on HN were helpful and high quality
I think the quality and helpfulness differs pretty dramatically from one topic to another.
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#223Didn't know it was down :D
25% of Canadian internet users would have said the same thing if they could.
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#224I was sick, so I slept a lot and didn't even noticed HN went down.
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#225I spent some time watching some stuff on YouTube, including Part 1 of a documentary about Oracle and how they changed the database world. I can't wait for the SQL...
Do you have the link handy?
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing. Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay. The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probab…
In some ways I like it already as well. Doing things in code instead of XML is nice. My real struggle is knowing what different citizens of the Android lineage are are "current". Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this an…
I hear you. The badges actually exist, but they're not very useful.
Material Design is way up in the club member territory, but my gut feeling is they're not very committed to. On the other hand, they have @ExperimentalApi slapped all over things like Compose and Flow but those are probably here to stay.
Flutter seems like it's dangling close to the chopping board. I feel sorry for all the people who think that it's going to stay because Google.
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
They just use it to verify where you work. It's so people don't just falsely claim to be at Meta or whatever, but it doesn't keep people from lying about their workplace anyway. Enough people use Blind that HR/IT shouldn't care.
So they will not send an email to my work email box for me to click on a link for verification? Them sending an actual email to my email account is what I’m worried about.
That's exactly what they do, but no emails after that afaik.
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#228Handed out a couple grams of nicotinic acid, explained the flush, taught some people how to surf, explained how wifi radar works, how to hack various devices, how to avoid getting a speeding ticket, explained how a chemical in 1 litre of grapefruit juice is enough to slow up the liver metabolism of some medication which can put you in an embarrassing potentially life threatening situation if one is a male who has taken 50mg of sildenafil and more...
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#229I got existential crisis and withdrawals. Looks like I am addicted to HN :)
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#230I have read some beautiful articles and pdf from HN which were in my browser bookmarks.